Changes between Version 103 and Version 104 of vnc3d

Timestamp:

12/20/16 21:29:22 (7 years ago)

Author:

Jens Henrik Goebbert

Comment:

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vnc3d

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 * optimized even for low bandwidth connections
 
-In general one can distinguish between '''remote desktop''' and '''remote window''' solutions.\\
-While remote desktop solutions present a whole desktop environment (on JURECA we run XFCE) in a single window on the user´s workstation, remote window solutions make applications running on JURECA appear on the local desktop as normal windows managed by the local window manager.
+In general one can distinguish between '''full desktop mode''' and '''seamless window mode''' solutions.\\
+While using a full desktop mode presents a complete desktop environment (on JURECA we run XFCE) in a single window on the user´s workstation, the seamless window mode makes applications running on JURECA appear on the local desktop as normal windows managed by the local window manager.
 
-The full-blown and one-click solution for remote visualization providing a remote desktop on frontend nodes and compute nodes is provided using '''Virtual Network Computing (VNC)''' over the login tool '''Strudel'''.
-We recomment to use VNC + Strudel as our first choice as it is integrated into our batch system at the moment most efficiently.
-For access to remote windows we recomment '''X Persistent Remote Applications (Xpra)''' as a light-weight solution.
+The full-blown and one-click solution for remote visualization allows a remote full desktop on frontend nodes and/or compute nodes is provided using '''Virtual Network Computing (VNC)''' over the login tool '''Strudel'''.\\
+We recomment to use VNC+Strudel as our first choice as it is integrated most efficiently into our batch system at the moment.\\
+For access to remote seamless windows we recomment '''X Persistent Remote Applications (Xpra)''' as a light-weight solution.
 
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@@ -48 +48 @@
 
 '''VNC + Strudel''' (Scientific Remote Desktop Launcher)
-  * provides a complete graphical and '''remote desktop'''
+  * provides a complete graphical and '''remote full desktop'''
   * survives disconnect & reconnect
   * supports easy start of remote visualization jobs over the batch system (including reconnect).
@@ -79 +79 @@
 
 '''Xpra''' (X Persistent Remote Applications)
-  * provides a '''remote window''' solution.
-  * this is a '''replacment for ssh -X'''
+  * provides a '''remote seamless window''' solution.
+  * this is the best '''replacment for ssh -X'''
   * survives disconnect & reconnect
   * every window appears as a separate window on the user’s desktop
   * graphical window is encoded to a video stream and send to the user´s desktop
-  * focus is on fixed frame rate but dynamic frame quality
+  * focus is on fixed frame rate and dynamic frame quality
 [wiki:vnc3d/xpra ... more details]
 
@@ -137 +137 @@
 == Comparison of possible Remote Visualization Solutions ==
 
-||= Features                 =||= '''VNC''' =||= '''Xpra''' =||= '''ssh -X''' =||= '''NX''' =||= '''RDesktop''' =||
-|| Stability                  ||             ||              ||                ||            ||                  ||
-|| server-side rendering      ||  VirtualGL  ||  VirtualGL   ||       ---      ||            ||                  ||
-|| disconnect & reconnect     ||             ||              ||                ||            ||                  ||
-|| Performance over slow link ||             ||              ||                ||            ||                  ||
-|| disconnect & reconnect     ||             ||              ||                ||            ||                  ||
-|| Seamless mode    ||             ||              ||                ||            ||                  ||
-|| Full Desktop mode    ||             ||              ||                ||            ||                  ||
-|| Session Shadowing    ||             ||              ||                ||            ||                  ||
-|| no local X-server    ||             ||              ||                ||            ||                  ||
-|| Main Issues    ||             ||              ||                ||            ||                  ||
+||= Features                 =||= '''VNC''' =||= '''Xpra''' =||= '''ssh -X''' =|| ||= '''NX''' =||= '''RDesktop''' =||
+|| Stability                  ||     ++      ||     ++       ||       -        || ||     +      ||        ++        ||
+|| Performance over slow link ||     +       ||     ++       ||       --       || ||     ++     ||        +         ||
+|| server-side rendering      ||  VirtualGL  ||  VirtualGL   ||       -        || || VirtualGL  ||        -         ||
+|| suspend & resume session   ||    YES      ||    YES       ||       -        || ||   YES      ||        YES       ||
+|| Seamless mode              ||    -        ||    YES       ||       YES      || ||   YES      ||        YES       ||
+|| Full Desktop mode          ||    YES      ||   (YES)      ||      (YES)     || ||   YES      ||        YES       ||
+|| Session Sharing            ||    YES      ||    YES       ||       -        || ||   YES      ||        -         ||
+|| no local X-server needed   ||    YES      ||    YES       ||       -        || ||   -        ||        YES       ||
+||                            ||             ||              ||                || ||            ||                  ||
+|| Main Issues                ||             ||              ||                || ||            ||                  ||
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